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This is beautiful, quiet, peaceful,
sedate, serene San Jose, California.

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But in just a few minutes it won't be very
quiet over there in the bowels of the

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San Jose Civic Auditorium because
we're about to bring you the

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conclusion of Computer Bowl Five.

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As a team of smart guys from the west
takes on a group of sharpies from the east

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to see who knows more about computer trivia.

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We'll have Bill Gates, Pat Seibold,
Jean-Louis Gasset and a cast of computer

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celebrities as we bring you the finale of
the fifth annual Computer Bowl on this

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special edition of the Computer Chronicles.

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Computer Chronicles is brought to you in
part by Intel Microprocessor Technology

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for the Computer Inside.

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Additional funding is provided by the
Software Publishers Association, providers

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of educational materials
to help manage software.

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Don't copy that floppy.

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And welcome back to Computer
Bowl Five presented by the

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Association for Computing Machinery.

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We're here at the San Jose Civic Auditorium.

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It's half time and after, let's see,
two rounds of play, the score is 11 points

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for the west, four points for the east.

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You guys at the bottom,
you've got a little bit of work to do.

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All right, for those of you at home just
joining us right now, let me introduce

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our celebrity panelists on this
Friday the 14th horror show.

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It's turning out that way for the
east coast at the moment, at night

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of terror for the team that loses.

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All right,
let me introduce for the challengers.

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All right, on the bottom here,
the terrifying techies of the east from Legion

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Corporation, John Bloodbath Burton.

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From Phoenix Technologies,
Neil the Cannibal Colvin.

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Much more serious these guys right now.

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The captain of the east
coast team from Powersoft

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Corporation, Mitchell the Maniac Kurtzman.

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From View Logic Systems, Alan the Hatchet Man,
Hanover and from the Patricia

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Seabold group, Pat the Slasher Seabold.

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For the defending champions, those
horrifying smart hackers of the west from B

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Incorporated, Jean-Louis Grussam-Gasset.

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From Go Corporation, Jerry the Killer Kaplan.

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The captain of the west coast
team from Network General

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Corporation, Harry the Slicer Saul.

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From Super Mac, Inc.
Michael the Madman McConnell.

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And from Data Quest, Incorporated,
Lisa the Thrasher Thorell.

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Our judges this year are David Nelson
representing the east coast and John

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Schock representing the west coast.

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Once again, our official examiner for
tonight's Friday the 14th competition, a

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man who puts fear into any competitor, Mr.
Microsoft Bill Gates.

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Alright, we are into round three,
the score 11 for the west, 4 for the east and

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we're going to begin this round with a prop.

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And this is the prop and build
if you will ask the question.

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Nearly 30 years ago,
one of the first precursors to today's

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pen based computers was developed.

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It is a digital graphic input device
with its own pen like stylus.

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Where was this tablet developed?

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Was it?

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Alright, we have an answer from
Alan Hanover of the east coast.

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MIT Lincoln Lab, no sound.

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MIT Lincoln Lab.

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You know you're better off with no
sound because that's the wrong answer.

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Was it Xerox Hark, IBM,
Bell Labs or the Rand Corporation?

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Okay, from the west we have Lisa Thorell.

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Rand Corporation.

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Rand Corporation is correct Lisa, okay.

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Another point for the west coast.

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Alright, we're going to a bonus round
now and this is another bonus round, the

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second shot for the west coast to
get a couple of extra points here.

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The subject is computer ads.

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I'm going to name an actor and I want
you to tell me what computer company

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he has served for as a spokesman.

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The actor is Alan Alda.

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What computer company?

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Alan Alda, answer through your captain please.

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Right now, it's not hard.

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The company was IBM.

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IBM is one of the correct answers.

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Atari would have been another.

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He did both.

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Alright, another point for the west.

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The actor in the commercial is Bill Cosby.

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What's the computer company?

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The company was Texas Instrument.

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That's another point for the west.

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That's the correct answer.

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Here's a chance to roar ahead.

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The actor is William Shatner.

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What's the computer company?

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Yes?

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[...]

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Commodore is right.

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Another point for the west.

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Okay, at the end of that bonus round,
the west with a commanding lead of 15-4,

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we're going to back to toss up
questions and Bill, you're up.

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In 1983,
the Heath Company marketed a robot kit.

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What was the name of...

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Neil Colvin of the east coast.

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Hero is the correct answer.

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Okay, there's a point for the east.

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The GEOS operating system
from GeoWorks was originally

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developed for what computer?

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What computer was the GEOS operating
system first developed for?

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Again, not too tough a question, guys.

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Alright,
we have an answer from Harry Solovell-West.

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An answer.

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Radio Shack color computer.

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That is not the correct answer.

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Anybody from the east like to give it a shot.

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GEOS operating system
developed for what computer?

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Going once.

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Going twice.

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Yes, okay, Mitch.

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That is not the correct answer either.

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It was the Commodore 64.

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GEOS written for the Commodore 64.

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Next toss-up question, Bill.

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One of the earliest personal computers
was the Altair manufactured by MITS.

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What did the letters MITS stand for?

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Okay, Michael McConnell of the west.

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Micro instrumentation telemetry systems.

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That's exactly right.

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[...]

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Okay, next question, Bill.

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What is the name of the computer program
used by British mathematician, Stephen

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Hawking, for communicating with other people?

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What's the software program
Stephen Hawking uses

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to communicate with other people?

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Going once, going twice.

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Come on, take a shot.

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Somebody got not too much to lose.

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Running out of time, okay.

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We have Alan Hanover.

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What's your shot, Alan?

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Mathematica?

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No.

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Anybody from the west want
to give it a shot quickly?

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Going once, going twice.

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No, okay.

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The answer is equalizer.

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The name of the program is equalizer.

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Next question, Bill.

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During the 1980s, there was a
magazine that focused exclusively on

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Tandy TRS-80 computers.

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What was the name of that magazine?

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All right.

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We have a guest from Harry Sall of the West.

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[...]

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No, that's not quite right.

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Anybody from the east tried...

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You finished the question right.

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What was the name of the magazine that
focused exclusively on TRS-80 computers

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in the early 1980s?

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Anybody like to try it?

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Going once, going twice.

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The answer is...

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Sorry, time is up. 80 micro was the answer.

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All right, I've got a bonus round
question now for the east coast.

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Gentlemen, are you ready?

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And ladies, 16 to 5 is the score.

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The subject is software.

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All right, Sketchpad was the first
computer-aided design, or CAD, program.

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It used a light pen for drawing images.

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Who wrote the program Sketchpad?

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I need an answer from the Captain Mitch.

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I've been to Sutherland.

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That's exactly right.

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One point for the east, we're up to 16 to 6.

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You can get another point if you can
tell me who wrote the computer game

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Pinball Construction Set.

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[...]

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No, no, no, hold on.

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You guys up there, just wait.

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This is for the east.

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Pinball Construction Set, Mitch?

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I need an answer.

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Trip Hawkins.

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No.

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No, I'm afraid the answer is
Bill Budge wrote the program.

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Bill Budge.

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All right, here's a chance for one more point.

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Who wrote the computer game Ghostbuster?

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The computer game Ghostbuster.

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Who wrote that program?

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East Coast, talk about it, think about it.

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Give me an answer, Mitch.

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Bill Gates.

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No,
David Crane was the answer to that question.

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You missed your chance.

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We're going back to toss-up questions.

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Go ahead, Bill.

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Agnes, Paul, and Denise were the
fanciful names of three custom chips

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inside a personal computer.

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All right,
we have an answer from Jean-Louis Gasset.

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The Amiga.

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The Amiga is correct. 11-6, 17

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-6, I'm sorry for the west, Bill.

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In 1950, a computer designed by
Edmund Berkeley made the cover

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of Scientific American Magazine.

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The computer contained 130 relays
and a five-hole paper tape input.

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What was the name of Berkeley's computer?

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Was it the CIDAC, the CILIAC,
the ELECTRO, or the SIMON?

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The name of the computer invented
by Edmund Berkeley in 1950.

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It was on the cover of Scientific American,
Allen Hanover of the East.

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CILIAC.

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That is not the correct answer.

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Anybody from the west like to take a shot?

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Okay, who do we have up there from the west?

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I didn't see it go.

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I'm sorry, okay, go ahead, Jerry.

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The ELECTRO.

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That is not right either.

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The answer was SIMON.

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Edmund Berkeley's computer
was called the SIMON.

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Next question, Bill. 17-6, the west.

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[...] answer was CARPEL TUNNEL
SYNDROME and BERSA's shoulder.

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Our examples of RSDs are they
are sometimes called RSI's.

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What do the letters...

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Mitch Kurtzman of the east coast.

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Repetitive stress disorders.

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Judges, it is going to be your turn.

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Let's turn to John Schock and David Nelson
and see if you'll accept that answer.

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The answer was a repetitive stress disorder.

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Well, begging hell, having...

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No, these are tough guys.

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While there's a technical difference,
we feel that strain and stress are often

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regarded loosely as synonyms,
and so we'd accept it.

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All right, the answer we had
was repetitive strain disorder.

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You said repetitive stress,
and strain is a stress.

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What the heck, given the point?

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All right, let's go on to the next question.
17-7.

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We know from strain and stress
here on the east coast, Steve.

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Go ahead, Bill.

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The printer language post-grip uses Bezier
curve calculations for its characters.

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True type uses a slightly different
type of curve calculation.

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What kind of curve calculation
is used by true type?

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All right, a good techy question
from Jerry Kaplan of the west.

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Spline approximation?

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I don't think so. I don't think that'll do it.

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Anybody from the east like to give it a shot.

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What are the types of curves used in the
calculations for true type characters?

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Nothing from the audience, please.

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Anybody like to give it a shot?
Going once, going twice, no.

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The answer is quadratic.
Quadratic is the answer.

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All right, 17-7, the west.
Next toss-up question, Bill.

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The winner of the 1992 ACM
Turing Award was Robert Milner.

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What language did he develop?

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Was it icon, ML, FP, or Lisp?

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What language did Robert Milner develop?
And we gave you four choices.

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Anybody like to take a shot?

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Okay, Alan Hanover of the east.

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FP.

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FP is not the answer.
Anybody from the west like to give it a shot?

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You got three left. Okay, Harry Saul.

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ML.

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ML is the correct answer.

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All right, so the score as we move
into our next bonus round, 18 for

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the west, 7 for the east.

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You guys on the west are ahead.
On the west, it is your turn

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to actually make it even worse.

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The subject is programming and programmers.

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I'm going to give you right
now the name of a programming

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language, and you tell me who wrote it.

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Tiny basic. Who wrote tiny basic?

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Li Chen Wang.

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No, that is not the answer.
The answer is Tom Pittman.

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Tom Pittman. All right, here's another
chance for a point. Who invented fourth?

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Who invented the language fourth?

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What did we just lose?

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Anyhow, did we get an answer?
I need an answer right now. No, it's too late.

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Charles Moore is the answer. All right,

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you have one more shot at getting a point here.

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What is the name of the C program used
by Unix programmers to examine a program

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closely for style, language,
usage, and portability problems?

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What is the name of the C program used by...

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The name of the program is Lint.

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Lint is the right answer.
All right, you got a point right there.

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All right, so at the end of that bonus round,
the score 19 to 7, one round to go.

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Don't go away. We'll be right back.

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All right, here we are. This is the last
round of the rubber match, the West in a

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commanding lead.
19 points for the West, 7 points for the East.

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You guys on the East, you can do it.
Getting 12 points is not so hard. We've got

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lots of questions for you.
First toss-up question, Bill.

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In describing video displays, the acronym
RGB stands for red, green, blue. What

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does the acronym HSB stand for?

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HSB, what does that stand for?
Harry's solid, the West?

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Hue, saturation, and brightness.

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That's exactly right. One point for the West.

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The Commodore VIC-20 was introduced in 1981.
How many columns of text were

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displayed on the VIC-20
screen in the default mode?

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Was it 18, 22, 40, or 80?

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Jerry Catlin of the West, 40.
That is not the correct answer.

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All right, East Coast, you've got a chance
to get a point here. How many columns

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displayed on the VIC-20?

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You gave you four choices.
Pat, what's the answer? 22 is the

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right answer. A point for the East.

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All right, next one, Bill.

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The first Cray-1 computer was installed
in 1977. Where was it installed?

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Where was the first Cray-1
supercomputer installed?

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All right, Harry.
Saul's going to try it for the West.

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Livermore Radiation Lab.

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No, that is not the right answer. All

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right, East,
you've got a chance to get a point here.

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The first Cray-1 supercomputer, 1977.
Yes, Alan?

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Los Alamos Laboratory.

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That's the right answer, Los Alamos.
All right, one point for the East.

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What do you call the feature appearing in
early Macintosh drawing programs, such

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as Mac Paint and Super Paint,
that let you enlarge and modify a small

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portion of a drawing?

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Neil Colvin of the East. Zoom.

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No, that is not the answer.
You can finish the question, I guess, Bill.

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You're entitled to hear the rest of the
question, if you want to wait. No, you've

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buzzed already. Lisa, what's the answer?

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Magnify.

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No, no, no, no. The answer was fat bits.
Fat bits is the answer.

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All right, next question, Bill.

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In his 1950 article entitled Computer
Machinery and Human Intelligence, Alan

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Turing poses a question about an artist
as an example of the kind of question

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a computer can't answer.

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What artist did Turing refer to?
Was it Picasso, Dolly, Da

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Vinci, or Michelangelo?

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Nobody read the article, huh? Okay,
Alan Hanover of the East. Michelangelo.

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No, it was not Michelangelo from the West.
Anybody like to give it a

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shot, Harry Saul? Da Vinci.

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Da Vinci is not the answer either.
It was Picasso. He said to the computer, what

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do you think of Picasso?
And of course the computer couldn't answer.

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All right, we're going to jump to a bonus
round, Bill, and this is a bonus round

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for the East Coast, and the subject is
going to be computers and the movies.

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Again, another chance for you
people to get three points

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here. All right, here's the first question.

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In what 1977 movie did Julie Christie play
the role of a woman who was imprisoned

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and then impregnated by a computer?

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Was it Basic Instincts, Demon Seed, Love You to

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Death, or The Forbin Project?

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Demon Seed.

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Demon Seed is the right answer. That's
one point for the East. Okay, we're up to

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20 to 10 right now.

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This 1985 movie was about two nerdy
teenagers who use a computer to conjure up

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the woman of their dreams.
What is the name of that movie?

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Yes, everybody's thinking about it.
What was the name of that movie? Computer

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Nerds used it to create this wonderful woman.
The answer is Mitch.

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Bill and Paul's Excellent Adventure.

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You're in the right genre. Weird Science.
The movie was called Weird Science.

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Very weird.
All right, here's a chance for one more point.

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This 1984 film directed by Steve Barron
told the story of a not so classic love

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triangle involving a boy,
a girl, and a computer.

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What was the name of this movie?
Was it The Electric Horseman, The Computer Wore

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Tennis Shoes, Electric Dreams,
or The Last Starfighter?

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What was the name of that movie?
1984 Love Triangle, Boy, Girl, Computer. It was

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called Mitch.

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Last Starfighter?

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That is not right. It was Electric Dreams.
All right, at the end of that bonus

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round, 20 points for the West, 10 points
for the East. We are going back to toss

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-up questions. And, Bill, it's your turn.

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In computer music terminology,
a common acronym is ASDR.

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What do the letters ASDR stand for?

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ASDR, an acronym. We're dealing with
computer music. What could it be? Anybody

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like to give it a try? Going once, going twice.
All right, nobody's going to give

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it a try.
The answer is attack, sustain, decay, release.

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All right, next question, Bill.

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If you wanted to expand the memory
of the original IBM PC, how much

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memory could you fit onto the motherboard?

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How much memory could you put on the
original IBM PC on the motherboard, Neil

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Colvin of the East? 64K.
That's the right answer, 64K indeed.

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Okay, next question, Bill.

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Most microprocessors have an IRQ pin.
What does IRQ stand for?

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Harry, Solove the West?

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Interrupt Request.

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That's the right answer, Interrupt Request.

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Next question.

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In the computer museums, People in Computers
exhibit, the first computer to ever

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light a Broadway show is displayed.
The show was a chorus

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line. What was the computer?

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What computer was used to do the
lighting for a chorus line, the first

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time a computer was used to do that?

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All right, Alan Hanover of the East?

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An Apple II.

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No, it was not an Apple II.
Anybody from the West like to give it a shot?

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Computer used to do the lighting for
a chorus line? Yes, go ahead, Jerry.

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How about a PDP-11?

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Close, but no cigar. PDP-8 is the answer.
PDP-8 was the answer.

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All right, 21 to 11 the West?

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Bill, go ahead.

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In 1976, the first Z80-based computer
was introduced. What company

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introduced it? Was it processor technology?

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Neil Colvin of the East?

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Chromemco.

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Chromemco is the right answer.
Okay, another point for the

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East. Another toss-up question.

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What was the first real-time computer?

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All right, we have Jean-Louis Gassé.

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[...]

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That's the right answer.
Okay, another point. Very good.

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Okay, I'm going to do a bonus round right now.
It is the West

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Coast's turn, I'm afraid, for the bonus round.

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So here's a chance the subject is
microprocessors. West, according to the 1993

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Guinness Book of World Records, what is
the fastest microprocessor in the world?

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According to the Guinness Book of Records,
this year's edition, what is the

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fastest microprocessor in the world?
Yes, Aaron?

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According to us, it's the DEC Alpha.

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[...] DEC Alpha chip. Very good.

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Okay, for a second point in this bonus round,
what is a unit of real estate on

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a VLSI chip called?

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The unit of real estate on a VLSI chip.

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Yes, I need an answer, please.

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Square mill.

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Square mill is an acceptable answer, yes. Or

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nanoacre would have been an answer also.

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Okay, one more point. We've got one

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more chance for you guys to get another point.

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What microprocessor was used
inside the COSMAC-ELF computer?

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The COSMAC-ELF computer.
What was the microprocessor inside it?

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I need an answer quickly.

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The RCA 1801.

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Say it again?

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The RCA 1801.

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What do you say, judges?

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Comment. Comment terminology, though, sir.

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If only because you're blowing them out so

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badly, Harry, I think we ought not to allow it.

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The answer is the RCA 1802.

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What a difference one can make, huh?

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All right,
we're going back to the TUS of questions, Bill.

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MIT is famous for its Media Lab,
where they work on innovative

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uses of computer technology.

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The Media Lab is the successor to
another group at MIT called ARK-MAC.

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What did ARK-MAC stand for?

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This was a group at MIT,
the predecessor to the Media Lab at MIT.

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They called themselves ARK-MAC,
and ARK-MAC stood for what?

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Going once, going twice.

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All right, we'll give Alan Henover a shot.

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Architecture machine.

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That's the right answer. Well, architecture
machine group, I think, is the right

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answer on that one. Sure. Next one, Bill.

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Football games on TV have often
had ads for cars, beer, and

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even occasionally computers.

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Jean-Louis Gassé is digging himself a real

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deep hole. What's the answer? 1984 Super Bowl.

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Finish the question, Bill, for the East Coast.

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During the 1993 Fiesta Bowl,

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one sponsor was an operating system.

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What was the computer operating system
that was advertised in the Fiesta Bowl?

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How many choices could there be?
Pat Seibold of the East.

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OS2. OS2 was the right answer.

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All right, one more question, Bill. Go ahead.

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Lips is an acronym for a measure
of computer performance.

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Jerry Kaplan of the West.
Logical inferences per second.

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That's the right answer for the West.

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Ladies and gentlemen, our time is up.
This is the end of round four, the end of

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the game, the end of Computer Bowl V,
the end of the East Coast.

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The score is 25 for the West, 14 for the East.

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The new champions, the continuing champions,
the winners of the rubber match the

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West Coast by a score of 25 to 14.

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Congratulations to all of our panelists,
and thank you all for joining us for

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this fifth annual Computer Bowl.

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A special thank you to the Computer Museum,
ACM, and all the sponsors and

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underwriters who made this event possible.

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